Bauer Takes Bite out of Csome
Joao Bauer has a very unenviable seat at today's final table. Seated to his left are the players with the two biggest stacks, Alex Manzano and Leandro Csome. Bauer decided to play very aggressively against Csome on the last hand before the break and it paid dividends. Sitting with the button, Bauer opened to 115,000. Csome three-bet the big blind to 330,000, a raise that Bauer responded to by moving all in. Csome asked for a count (about 1 million) then called with . He went running down to his supporters in the gallery when Bauer opened .
The flop was a ragged . All of the Brazilians in the crowd starting chanting for a jack and were rewarded with the on the turn. Csome's much smaller group of supporters chanted for a queen but were drowned out by the cheers of the Brazilians on the river .
That's the first hit for Csome today. Bauer is now vying for the chip lead.